History
On February 28, 1944 almost all the villagers of Polish ethnic background were murdered and the village razed during the Huta Pieniacka massacre in a planned action by the II Battalion of the 4th regiment of the SS Freiwilligen Division "Galizien" under the command of Włodzimierz Czerniawski.
| Huta Pieniacka monument to victims of the World War II massacre | ||
Coordinates: 49°54′07″N 25°05′56″E / 49.902°N 25.099°E / 49.902; 25.099
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